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Feb-28-25 Boris Spassky    phantasmagorium: One by one, living links to the pre-computer chess disappear. Among the great ones, now only Panno, Olafsson, and Portisch remain from Spassky's generation, it seems. May you rest in eternal peace, Boris Vasilievich.      Feb-28-25 Tal vs Portisch, 1976    phantasmagorium: <Petrosianic> from the chessbase story, seems like Tal's second already had an inkling (crystal ball? Who knows), and asked Tal to play 8. Nb3. Dunno why - apparently he felt their prep on the poisoned pawn variation was not good enough. Tal chose the sharpest line (8.      Feb-25-25 M Ostrauskas vs E Kogan, 1957   phantasmagorium: But again, it is not clear why Black did not play 26... Rxa1. Seems like both players play too hard too win - but White was the one who got punished!      Feb-25-25 Biographer Bistro    phantasmagorium: Albert Zirngibl Albert Zirngibl (whose game against Lothar Zinn L Zinn vs A Zirngibl, 1961 is in "Recent Kibitzing") appears to have dies on January 20, 1989 according to https://players.chessbase.com/en/pl... (assuming it is not another AZ).      Jan-24-25 Z Lanka vs Y Piskov, 1988   phantasmagorium: Why not 21 ... Bxg7? If, say, 22. Qh6, then 22 ... f5, and what's next?      Jan-24-25 Spassky vs E Bukic, 1978   phantasmagorium: What a game! After move 15 or so, it seems like only White plays, while Black could only flail around - and mostly only in a limited space. If only I could play a game like that... most of the time, when I make a long-term sacrifice and get such a dominant position, I fail ...      Jan-21-25 J Yuchtman vs J Rotstein, 1952   phantasmagorium: <Delboy> Yup. 14. dxc6 is an absolute shocker. What follows (moves 15-20) is just plain hilarious. While Black could only move around in the bottom three lines, White (particularly the Queen) just dance around the board. The Queen goes to d4, h8, retreat to e5, and ...      Jan-15-25 S Yuferov vs E Mochalov, 1974    phantasmagorium: A strange kind of "oops". After 19. Ned4 (instead of Nbd4) things are not so clear yet (19... Bf8 20. Re1+).      Dec-09-24 Lautier vs V Zorman, 1985    phantasmagorium: Is Black really lost here? White has a light-squared bishop and a pawn which promotes to a dark square, unless he could get Black to do g5-g4. Either that, or White eliminates the g5 pawn while Black's king is stranded inside White's territory. Are those scenarios ...      Oct-24-24 K Honfi vs Korchnoi, 1965    phantasmagorium: <Volcach> I would guess that there is an error in the gamescore, and Black's actual move was 58 ... Kg7 and not 58 ... 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